The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Although he didn't know what the two were talking about, the interaction between the two fell into Nie Yifei's eyes. His eyes suddenly darkened, he snorted coldly, turned around and walked away.

Zhu Xiaomin saw it and curled her lips slightly. She didn't care and went to prepare dried tofu and cakes for the New Year with Zhang Qiaomei.

Zhang Qiaomei looked at her, then at Nie Yifei, who had just left the yard, hesitated, and then asked in a low voice: "Is this really the case?"

Zhu Xiaomin sighed: "Otherwise, do you think I'm joking?"

This time, it was really different from the previous times.

Zhang Qiaomei nodded and lowered her voice: "I just think it's a pity. Among us educated youths, he and Lu Mingzheng are the only ones with the best conditions. Now Lu Mingzheng is gone..."

"Qiaomei!" Zhu Xiaomin called her, stretched out his arms to hug her, and said softly, "No matter how good the conditions are, if the person is not good enough, he is not good enough. I will not be with him."

In the last life, Zhang Qiaomei returned to the city after two years of illness. In the first few years, she still had contact with her. She only knew that she was married to an ordinary worker. Later, her marriage with Lu Mingzheng became worse and worse, and she no longer had the heart to give. When others write letters, contact is lost.

Later, after more than ten years apart, she had left home and reunited with Zhang Qiaomei. She was already the mother of three children. Although her life was ordinary, it was peaceful.

Or maybe she had seen too much suffering, so she felt that Zhang Qiaomei's original trajectory was pretty good, and she didn't want to interfere artificially.

Zhang Qiaomei didn't know that she was thinking of herself more than ten years later. Hearing her decisive words, she just nodded slightly, then unconsciously raised her head and glanced over there, but there was no trace of Nie Yifei.

Zhu Xiaomin didn't pay attention to her reaction. He called two male educated youths to come over and carried the pressed dried tofu to a place where the sun could dry it. Then he asked: "Where are the poems?"

"We are doing needlework in the house, and those few people don't know how to wear it. There are several holes in one piece of clothing." Zhang Qiaomei answered, shaking her head with a smile.

Zhu Xiaomin also laughed: "When we first came here, we couldn't accept patched clothes, but now we can only mend them."

"Isn't it?" Zhang Qiaomei also sighed, "How could we know that clothes would be broken so easily, how could new clothes be as good as them?"

The two of them were chatting and busy with their work, and from time to time they would ask the male educated youth to do a favor.

After finishing what they were doing, the two of them went back together, rubbing their hands that were red from the cold. They saw that Miao Shiwen had just mended the last piece of clothing and picked it up to see if there was any damage.

Zhu Xiaomin went over to take a look and praised, "Shi Wen, your craftsmanship is so good, you can't even tell it was patched up."

The coat that had just been repaired was one of Xie Chengzhi's coats. It might have been caught on something and torn a triangular hole.

Miao Shiwen did not patch the top directly, but put interlining on the bottom, and used cotton thread to densely embroider a letter pattern on the opening, as if it was originally on the clothes.

Miao Shiwen smiled: "I only have this little ability, but unlike you, I can take care of so many people's meals."

Zhu Xiaomin pursed her lips and smiled: "Then Qiaomei is still great, she can do everything."

Zhang Qiaomei was helpless: "I can only do patchwork, but I can't do it so delicately."

The three of them complimented each other. Seeing that Miao Shiwen had folded several pieces of mended clothes, Zhu Xiaomin smiled: "Today we are busy with New Year's goods and they are cleaning up the house. If you send the clothes, we will go check them out."

Miao Shiwen couldn't help laughing, nodded, picked up the clothes and went out with the two of them.

Hearing that the clothes had been mended, several male educated youths came over in a hurry, thanked them, and took back their clothes.

Xie Chengzhi shook it off and took a look, his eyes lit up, and he thanked Miao Shiwen again and again. Hearing that the three of them wanted to check the housekeeping, he also smiled and went with the three of them.

When the male educated youth heard this, they were a little embarrassed. You pushed me to give way, because they wanted to avoid inspection anyway.

The three people ignored him and went over to take a look one by one. They couldn't help but laugh.

It had been cleaned up, and all the debris on the floor had been cleared away, but various things were still piled up in a mess. One of them actually wrapped a lot of things in a quilt to avoid them seeing the debris.

The three people had no choice but to help, neatly folding the piles of clothes and putting the ones that were not needed temporarily into boxes.

The male educated youth were surprised to find that the box really contained a lot more things than before. Listening to the instructions of the three people and clumsily helping, although not as good as the three girls, there was some progress.

After all the dormitories are cleaned and New Year's goods are prepared, New Year's Eve will come quietly.

In the afternoon, the male educated youth busily decorated all the houses with couplets written by themselves, and then helped the female educated youth prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.

After Zhu Xiaomin's repeated suggestions, in the end everyone could not withstand the temptation and agreed to eat the meat noodles wrapped in pure white noodles. From afternoon to dusk, three female educated youths were the main force, and a few male educated youths with some cooking skills helped. Bring out seven or eight hundred dumplings.

Because there were too many people to sit in one dormitory, they were divided into two dormitories. Among all the dormitories, the female educated youth dormitory and the dormitory where Xie Chengzhi lived were the cleanest and were adjacent to each other, so the tables were placed in these two dormitories. .

The people in the dormitories on both sides stacked their luggage in the corner of the kang, freeing up the entire kang. There was a table on the kang and another table on the floor. More than thirty people were separated and sat at four tables.

There is some loose wine on the table. In addition to fried peanuts and lotus beans, which are unique to the Beishan area, there is also a plate of cold fennel whites and another plate of dried tofu that I pressed a few days before the New Year. Add the ingredients, cook, cut into thin slices, and place a plate on each table.

The four kinds of dishes to go with wine are considered abundant in this era, not to mention the fragrant mutton stewed radish stewed on the stove, with some potatoes and picked mountain mushrooms added to it, which is even more delicious than usual.

Not to mention there are big meat dumplings wrapped in pure white noodles outside waiting to be cooked.

This year is the most abundant time since they came to this forest farm.

They were all young people. They didn't think about how much food was consumed in preparing the New Year's Eve dinner. They just talked and ate to their heart's content and enjoyed this rare time.

There were no soundproof doors and windows, and Yang Aijun's wild singing voice came from next door, which instantly caused laughter on this side.

After drinking for a while, everyone began to walk around and congratulate each other on the New Year. The door of the room opened and closed, and the cold wind from outside blew in, but it could not dissipate the enthusiasm in the room.

Zhu Xiaomin listened to everyone's talk with a smile, and remembered her previous life in a daze.

At this time in her previous life, she and Lu Mingzheng had already married and moved alone into two mud houses under the educated youth point.

This year, she was also trying her best to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner, but the dull atmosphere between the two was difficult to break until they both got drunk.